Updating To Genesis 8.1 On Older Scenes

pde1965

Does Anyone Know If It's Possible To Update Genesis female 8 To 8.1 On An Older Scene That Was Saved With Genesis 8 Before 8.1 Came out?
Loading Character Preset Only Adds A Character It Does Not Give You The Option To Update The Character.
I Want To Be Able To Redo Existing Scenes With The New Improved Figure As Opposed To Just Creating A New Scene
It Seems The Figure Naming Algorithm Makes This Impossible.
Any Suggestions?

FSMCDesigns

Well you could just save the material as a preset and the pose as a preset and then delete the figure and then add the 8.1 and apply the pose and material. It's what i do for G3 to G8 scenes.

PerttiA

I haven't tried this, but if the scene is not too big, you should be able to open the file in Notepad++, search for "Genesis" and edit the references to point to corresponding Genesis 8.1 references - Save the file and when you open it in DS 4.15 you have exactly the same scene, but the base character is now Genesis 8.1 instead of Genesis 8.0

Ghosty12

PerttiA said:

I haven't tried this, but if the scene is not too big, you should be able to open the file in Notepad++, search for "Genesis" and edit the references to point to corresponding Genesis 8.1 references - Save the file and when you open it in DS 4.15 you have exactly the same scene, but the base character is now Genesis 8.1 instead of Genesis 8.0

I had a look at one of my files and it would be very time consuming to edit, not forgetting that the files are compressed..  What FSMCDesigns suggests would be a lot quicker, and have a lot less chance of things going wrong..

nicstt

I set up a couple of so G8.1 figures, with the shaders as i want; I have V8.1 eyes and mouth textures included. Set up anything else on the figure you do as a regular thing and save as a subset.

That way you have a G8.1 ready to go, all you do then is get the textures and shape. I have zero interest in replicating the shaders from G8, ymmv.